I think it's pretty clear that the internet as a whole has not had a strong notion of identity. And identity means, 'Who am I?' Fundamentally, what Facebook has done has built a way to figure out who people are...

There clearly are cases where evil people exist, but you don't have to violate the privacy of every single citizen of America to find them.

Google is more than a business. Google is a belief system. And we believe passionately in the open Internet model.

The adult way to run a business is to run it more like a country. They have disputes, yet they've actually been able to have huge trade with each other. They're not sending bombs at each other.

The biggest mistake that I made was not anticipating the rise of the social networking phenomenon.

Google Maps are phenomenal. Yep, ask an Apple user.

Silicon Valley's involvement with Washington dates from one event, which was John Scully - who was the CEO of Apple - had dinner with President Clinton and Vice President Gore in 1993. And we're all going, like, 'What's going on? Why would we have dinner with the president?'